Agatha Christie is the most beloved novelist in history, having sold over two billion books in a hundred languages.

Where does one begin? Today I’m counting down my ten FAVORITE Christie whodunits.

The 'Hymn to Nikkal', represent the oldest known substantially complete notated music

It is 3,400 years old, dating back to approximately 1400 BCE.

This is how it sounds

Evening plans

Art by Maggie Vandewalle

A swan couple in the early morning mist

People tend to think of classics as being “boring,” but we wouldn’t keep reading them for hundreds of years if we didn’t love them.

Let me introduce you to some FUN classics:

'Sometimes I go out into the woods to do spells, or find plants, and instead I just end up sitting there, alone. With,' she pauses, eyes hunting for a lost word, 'everything.'

🎨 Edward Robert Hughes

White Japanese Wisteria Vines.

In Old English, the ampersand, '&', was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Children reciting the alphabet in school would chant 'per se', Latin for 'by itself', after letters that were words in themselves: 'A per se A, I per se I', etc, and also '& per se &'. This 'and…

For children to flourish, they need to grow up reading and being read to.

The following is a list of some ESSENTIAL books for any beloved children in your life. And they’re brilliant enough that they can be enjoyed equally well by adults.

a list of nice things:

• cold spring air
• illustrations in century-old fairy-tale anthologies
• apple pancakes & rum punch
• Jeremy Irons’ voice in Brideshead
• buying four Agatha Christie novels at an estate sale
• the joy and relief of writing a book you’re proud of

Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵

1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ twitter.com/arealmofwonder…

Tsundoku, from Japanese, is the act of buying yet another book that you fully intend to read, but never quite get round to.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.
(“What does ‘under the name’ mean?” asked Christopher Robin.
It means he had the name over the door and he lived under it.”) ~A.A.Milne

I’m not the only one seeing this, right? ❤️💛💙

Be a witness, not a judge.
Focus on yourself, not on others.
Listen to your heart, not to the crowd.

Rumi

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It's not the object discovered that matters, but the light that falls on it
Boris Pasternak
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I’ve been married to the same beautiful woman for 27 years.
Raised 2 highly educated, independent young women and a teen son.

I’m educated, work hard and make a very good living.
I employ both Republicans and Democrats.

I served my…